Community Hockey Stick IP Partner 
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
This communicates to investors that you don’t care about their time, you’re not prepared, you won’t be easy to work with if they decided to fund you, and that you have a huge ego. Present a “hockey-stick” financial growth model without sharing your numbers behind your numbers (a.k.a. your financial assumptions).
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.
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